Battery Box for Remote Mount Battery

Had this made at my work, it's a 1/2" Plexiglas (acrylic) battery box. Holes are already drilled for the battery cables and for the battery anchor bracket. There are two 1/8" aluminum plates (visible inside the box in the pictures) that I had cut. The intent was to place one inside the box and the other outside the box so that the clamping force of the bolts when installing would be on the aluminum rather than the acrylic.

Battery boxes on Summit run $80 or more for anything half way decent. This box is chemically welded and screwed together. The thing is pretty freaking stout. The stupid thumbscrews on top were $5 by themselves. $5 x 8 = $40 just for those things.

$75 in person, $100 shipped.

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That's cool looking! :thumb:

That's pretty awesome moze, why u selling it?

I like it, depending how things go I may snag it from you

Getting out of the racing thing, no longer need it.

help me understand how this would mount and what it would look like and all... im just not seeing it. :badteef:

I was intending to mount it upside down (so all of the black thumbscrews you see would be pointing down). I have an Optima battery so it would be mounted upside down in the box. You can mount it right side up if you have a regular battery.

do i have to figure out how to mount it or is there already bolts on the truck to use? and can you keep the spare tire?

I had it mounted where the spare tire mounts (removed the hoist). But you could probably mount it closer to the right rear tire (better traction) or just mount it in the bed.

do you have any pictures of it mounted?

he never got around to mounting it

This is how my current one is mounted. You could go in the same spot, or (probably a better option and what I was planning on doing) go closer to the passenger side of the bed for more weight over your rear tire.

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will it basically bolt in, maybe with a little persuasion? or will there need to be some fairly involved fab work to get it to go in? cutting, grinding, welding... anything like that?

If you can drill two holes, you can install it:

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I'll throw in a disconnect. You technically need one (at the track) if you do a relocate:

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Sold.